SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Talg River

Talg River (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Talg River (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 14401
Name ID: 2366

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

A major river in the Vestfold Hills draining from the Sørsdal Glacier into Crooked Lake. The flow in the melt season is torrential and occurs across ice and over an ice waterfall. The flow occurs in a well-defined meandering channel cut in the ice. Talg is Arabic for "ice".

Named For

Location

Latitude:

68° 37' 47.0" S

-68.62972°

Accurate to 20m

Longitude:

78° 22' 53.9" E

78.38164°

Accurate to 20m

Altitude:

30 m

Accurate to 5m

Images

©Richard 'Tubby' Seton 2009

Catalogue id: IA22006
Caption: Talg River, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1200 feet. Looking South.
Photographer: Seton, Richard

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

vest_hills_gis

Source Scale:

1:5000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

Australian Antarctic Division

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

Metadata for coordinates and origin of topographic data.

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

15-Mar-1984

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